Laundry Time
Your baby’s grasping skills are developing at this age. Have her “help” with sorting the laundry to practice these emerging skills!
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My Little Helper
Encourage your toddler’s growing independence by giving him a simple task to do. Helping out will give him a feeling of pleasure and power and is a great opportunity for him to describe what he is doing.
Look Up, Look Down
For this activity, the positional words “up” and “down” are used repeatedly to help your baby begin to understand direction and orientation.
Nesting Bowls
Your baby is developing motor skills that will prepare him to use drawing and writing tools as he gets older. Try pulling out some plastic bowls and watch him have fun nesting the bowls inside each other.
Crash, Bang Letters!
Here is a fun knock-down activity that will expose your child to alphabet letters. Choose a room that has open space and hard flooring like tile or hardwood.
Baby’s Choice!
Your baby is learning how to organize his attention between himself, another person and a third object. This fun game will help support his development of establishing and maintaining his attention to simple objects.
I’m Learning to Control My Body
As early as the third or fourth month, infants are learning to have more control of their bodies. Here are some things you can do to aid your baby in developing her motor skills.
So Big!
If your baby is between 6 months and 11 months old, she is at a peak age for receptive language development: the comprehension of language. This activity will give you both time to bond and it will help expose her to new sounds, vocabulary and repetition.
Hoo, Hoo – I Found You!
Animal sound games are a good way to expose your baby to new sounds! Plus, she will have so much fun trying to find where that sound is coming from.
A World of Shapes
As your newborn grows, he becomes more aware of his environment. Helping him see and feel different shapes as you interact together will lay the foundation for learning letter names and sounds later on.
